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AN   ACT, 
To  authorize  tlie  Tax  Collector  to  receive  certain  Bauk  Notes  iu  i^aymeut  of  State  and  Coimty  Taxes 

for  the  year  1861. 
Section  1.  Be  it  enacted  hy  the  Legislature  of  the  State   of  Mlnsissippi,  That  it  shall  be  lawful  for 
the  Sheriffs  and  Tax  Collectors  of  the  several  counties  of  this  State  to  collect  tiic  State  and  County  taxes 
for  the  year  1861,  in  the  current  notes  of  the  four  following  banks  located  in  the  State  of  Tennessee  :  The 
Union  Bank,  the  Planters'  Bank,  the  Bank  of  Tennessee  and  the  Bank  of  Memphis,  and  the  current  bank  notes 
of  banks  of  the  State  of  Alabama  and  the  current  bank  notes  of  the  State  of  Louisiana,  located  in  New 
Orleans,  Provided  nothing  iu  this  act  shall  authorize  the  Sheriffs  or  Tax  Collectors  of  this  State  to  re- 
ceive  any  thing  in  payment  of  the  Military  Tax,  authorized  by   the   Ordinance  of  the  State  Convention, 
except  gold  or  silver,  or  the  treasury  notes  issued  by  order  of  the  said   Convention,  payable  1st  day  of 
June,  1862. 

Sec.  2.  Beitjurther  enacted,  Tliat  this  act  shall  take  effect  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage. 

J.  P.  SCALES, 
Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives. 
JAMES  DRANE, 

President  of  the  Senate. 
Approved  January  28,  1862. 

JOHN  J.  PETTUS. 


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